(Apparently) when identification with the body ceased, so did being "ruled" by desire and compulsions.
One odd artifact of this is hunger. Being "just one more" physical sensation it is easy not to attend to it. And, the "need" to eat and sustain the body becomes a "learned" habit. For example, I discovered tht when I don't eat I tend to get weaker. But there is no compulsion, no "should" around eating.
If this kept going I could see "watching" myself starve to death.
One of the benefits of my wife is she reminds me to do stuff I would probably forget to do._________________Expanding Heart & Melting Mind
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(Apparently) when identification with the body ceased, so did being "ruled" by desire and compulsions.
One odd artifact of this is hunger. Being "just one more" physical sensation it is easy not to attend to it. And, the "need" to eat and sustain the body becomes a "learned" habit. For example, I discovered tht when I don't eat I tend to get weaker. But there is no compulsion, no "should" around eating.
If this kept going I could see "watching" myself starve to death.
One of the benefits of my wife is she reminds me to do stuff I would probably forget to do.

The so called person is nothing other then the desires and compulsions.